BANKER 1: I still pay for it because I probably made more a month, than she made a year. There's such a discrepancy and she knows my package, which is pretty good.
REPORTER: The 34-year-old says he earned more than half a million a year at UBS. He lost his job a few months ago and says he isn't ashamed of telling people. A friend standing next to him, another laid off i-banker who wouldn't give his name, agrees.
BANKER 2: Hopefully the people that I'm dating aren't just in this game for what I can spend on dinner, or what I can spend on drinks. Hopefully there's a little more to it than that.
REPORTER: Both say they saved money during the boom years, so they're not too worried. In fact the guy, who pays for his girlfriend's clothes, says he's still planning to surprise her with a mini vacation for Valentine's Day. He's optimistic about his future.
BANKER 1: One of the reasons we probably went into banking is because we're pretty type A. We're pretty adamant. I think we're pretty much on the ball with stuff. You know, we've always been successful, and so finally you hit your first setback. That's fine. But we know that we're going to bounce back.
